I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

Bonus: I now knew what Erin meant by lickable abs.

Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.

Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell "goodbye cruel world.